Safeguard Administrator's Manual (G06.24+, H06.03+)
Table Of Contents
- What’s New in This Manual
- About This Manual
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Controlling User Access
- Introduction
- Using SAFECOM to Establish a Local User Community
- Using SAFECOM to Manage User Access to Your System
- Changing the Owner of a User Authentication Record
- Granting a User Temporary Access to Your System
- Requiring Users to Change Their Passwords
- Granting a Grace Period for Changing an Expired Password
- Forcing Immediate Expiration of a User’s Password
- Freezing a User's Ability to Access the System
- Specifying Auditing for a User ID
- Deleting Users
- Deleting Administrative Groups
- Using SAFECOM to Establish a Network of Users
- Using Safeguard With Nodes With Standard Security
- Identifying Network Users
- Granting a Network User Access to Objects on Your System
- Establishing a Community of Network Users
- Changes to the PAID During a User’s Session
- Additional Considerations for Aliases and Groups
- Additional Considerations for ACCESS with Network Specific Subject IDs
- Establishing Default Protection for a User's Disk Files
- Specifying a Default Command Interpreter for a User
- Establishing Guardian Defaults
- Assigning an Alias to a User
- 3 Managing User Groups
- 4 Securing Volumes and Devices
- 5 OBJECTTYPE Control
- 6 Managing Security Groups
- 7 Securing Terminals
- 8 Warning Mode
- 9 Configuration
- Safeguard Attributes
- Configuring User Authentication
- Configuring Password Control
- Configuring Device Control
- Configuring Process Control
- Configuring Disk-File Control
- Configuring Safeguard Auditing
- Configuring a Default Command Interpreter
- Configuring Communication With $CMON
- Configuring Logon Dialog
- Configuring Exclusive Access at Safeguard Terminals
- Configuring Warning Mode
- Configuring Persistence
- Configuring Attributes for Node Specific Subjects in ACLs
- 10 Installation and Management
- Safeguard Components
- Process Considerations for the SMP and SAFECOM
- Safeguard Subsystem Management Commands
- General Installation Procedure
- Installing the Safeguard Software
- Starting the SMP
- Converting to the Safeguard Subsystem
- Updating the Safeguard Software
- Guidelines for Securing the Safeguard Subsystem
- Monitoring the Safeguard Subsystem
- A SAFECOM Command Syntax
- Index

Configuration
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9-2
Safeguard Attributes
At any time, you can display the current settings of the attributes by issuing the INFO
SAFEGUARD command from SAFECOM.
Table 9-1. Safeguard Attribute Default Values (page 1 of 3)
Attribute Name Initial or Default Value
AUTHENTICATE-MAXIMUM-ATTEMPTS 3
AUTHENTICATE-FAIL-TIMEOUT 60 SECONDS
AUTHENTICATE-FAIL-FREEZE OFF
PASSWORD-HISTORY 0
PASSWORD-MINIMUM-LENGTH
*
6
PASSWORD-MAY-CHANGE 0
PASSWORD-EXPIRY-GRACE 0
PASSWORD-REQUIRED OFF
PASSWORD-ENCRYPT
*
ON
CHECK-DEVICE ON
CHECK-SUBDEVICE OFF
DIRECTION-DEVICE DEVICE-FIRST
COMBINATION-DEVICE FIRST-ACL
ACL-REQUIRED-DEVICE OFF
CHECK-PROCESS ON
CHECK-SUBPROCESS OFF
DIRECTION-PROCESS PROCESS-FIRST
COMBINATION-PROCESS FIRST-ACL
ACL-REQUIRED-PROCESS OFF
CHECK-VOLUME OFF
CHECK-SUBVOLUME OFF
CHECK-FILENAME ON
DIRECTION-DISKFILE VOLUME-FIRST
COMBINATION-DISKFILE ALL
ACL-REQUIRED-DISKFILE OFF
CLEARONPURGE-DISKFILE OFF
AUDIT-AUTHENTICATE-PASS NONE
AUDIT-AUTHENTICATE-FAIL NONE
AUDIT-SUBJECT-MANAGE-PASS NONE
*
For systems running G06.29 and later G-series RVUs and H06.06 and later H-series RVUs, the default value
for PASSWORD-MINIMUM-LENGTH is six and PASSWORD-ENCRYPT is TRUE.
**
Supported only on systems running G06.29 and later G-series RVUs and H06.08 and H-series RVUs.
AUDIT-CLIENT-GUARDIAN is a synonym for AUDIT-CLIENT-SERVICE.
3
Supported only on systems running H06.08 and later H-series RVUs.
^
Supported only on systems running H06.09 and later H-series RVUs.